Cannot reproduce on my system, unstable updated daily. Perhaps you need to run dselect update or somehow you have corrupted your available file?
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:25:31PM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.9.20 > Severity: important > > `dpkg -l regexp' does not correctly print all the packages in the Debian > server which match the regexp. > > For example: > > eminescu:~$ dpkg -l gnu\* > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > un gnu-standards <none> (no description available) > ii gnugo 3.2-1 Plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi). > ii gnumeric 1.0.6-1 A GNOME spreadsheet application > un gnumeric-doc <none> (no description available) > un gnumeric-gda <none> (no description available) > un gnumeric-pytho <none> (no description available) > un gnupg <none> (no description available) > un gnupg-doc <none> (no description available) > ii gnuplot 3.7.2-4 A command-line driven interactive plotting p > un gnuserv <none> (no description available) > un gnutls <none> (no description available) > > Another example: > > eminescu:~$ dpkg -l gnuc\* > No packages found matching gnuc*. > > However, the gnuchess package, for example, exists! > > I use this method to find out if a package mathing a regexp exists or not. > > In previous versions of dpkg (the one of the stable version, 1.6.15), > this bug does not appear. > > Eugen > > -- System Information > Debian Release: 3.0 > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux eminescu 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C > > Versions of packages dpkg depends on: > ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > an > ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal > hand > ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Gordon Sadler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
